#100hardtruths Main Menu Pledges and lists written over the first 100 days A path through the primer focusing on the several pledges and lists of hardtruths I wrote during the first 100 days of the Trump administration 24 #100hardtruths authored by invited contributors A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths written by scholars, artists, activists, and friends Art Answers to Phony Questions A path through the primer focusing on speaking hardtruths about and through poetic, abstract, formally reflexive, non-indexical Art Forms Virality is Virility A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths that connect a macho growing of digital stature to real world violence Fake News R Us A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths that reveal our complicity Some #100hardtruths on Racism A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about ethnicity, nationality, zenophobia, immigration and racism Some #100hardtruths on Sexism A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about gender, sexuality, sexism, and misogyny Some #100hardtruths on Images A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about photography, visibiity, and the power of images Some #100hardtruths on the Law A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about legislation, (il)legality, public institutions, and the power of the Law Some #100hardtruths on Advertising A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about corporate greed, getting eyeballs to content, the monetization of the Internet and Ads Some #100hardtruths of the Internet A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths that attempt to reveal the structure, logic, uses and power of the Internet Some #100hardtruths on Freedom of Expression A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about journalism, freedom of speech, and the power of Expression Some #100hardtruths on and through Film and Video A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about or spoken through film and video 35 #100hardtruths highlighting the work of others A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths produced by journalists, scholars, artists, activists found online Credits About the makers of this Scalar book. Old home page that links to Wordpress Some #100hardtruths in poetry Poems that were produced as a result of radical digital media literacy workshops Some hardtruth poem responses and readings

Some #100hardtruths on Digital Media Literacy

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A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about reading, writing, participating and understanding Digital Media Literacy.

“The path forward is hazy. We need to enable people to hear different perspectives and make sense of a very complicated  —  and in many ways, overwhelming  —  information landscape. We cannot fall back on standard educational approaches because the societal context has shifted. We also cannot simply assume that information intermediaries can fix the problem for us, whether they be traditional news media or social media. We need to get creative and build the social infrastructure necessary for people to meaningfully and substantively engage across existing structural lines” (dana boyd in #100hardtruths #18: a cultural change about how we make sense of information required)
 

Contents of this path:

  1. #18: a cultural change about how we make sense of information required
  2. #7: skeptical interaction with the digital is critical for democracy
  3. #12: we need things to help us get closer to the truth
  4. #14: skepticism is a weapon and a quality
  5. #21: focus on trust, verification, fact checking, and reader experience
  6. #26: algorithmic literacy, transparency and oversight needed
  7. #30, every single tweak in an algorithm can make a change
  8. #41, visualize hoaxes
  9. #51, arming youth with digital skills needed for a more sustainable, safe and equitable world
  10. #53, tame and disarm dangerous algorithms
  11. #54, #100questions to resist against future Presidents, even if we like them
  12. #60, spot a #fakenews site in 10 steps
  13. #66, make sure to fact-check the trump archive
  14. #68, digital self-defense in the time of trump needed
  15. #72, learn how to see Palestine
  16. #76, learn what happens when you type a letter on your keyboard
  17. #79, attend to the structural problems inherent in the platform ecosystem
  18. #84, stage #fakenews events
  19. #88, solutionism doesn’t identify core problems